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Woman robbed at knife point by foreigner

Date Posted: 1998-02-14

Early Sunday morning, a woman was robbed at knife-point after entering her car, which was parked in a lot near her workplace, in Ginowan City.

According to police reports, the woman opened her car door and as she sat down in the driver's seat, a black male entered the car from the side door and threatened her with a knife. Repeating "money, money," the man held the knife to the woman's neck until she gave him 10,000 Yen. After taking the money, the man ran from the scene and the woman, frightened, shaking and pale, had a passerby call the police, but by the time they arrived the robber had disappeared. police investigation of the incident continues.